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First of all, 'triploid' is not the correct term. A triploid is an organism with three copies of each chromosome. As opposed to diploid, two copies; tetraploid four copies or polyploid anything with more than two copies. What you have is a plant with multiple cotyledons as noted by SPLFreak...

Ask and you shall receive. HSO BlueDream. Seed started on 10/1, harvested on 1/9. First photo is harvest day before the chop. Bud everywhere! After the chop. Note the main cola leaning against the pot. After a week of drying and ready to go into cure for a couple of weeks. The main...

I second HSO Blue Dream. Just harvested one that got about 30 inches tall after a five week veg. A little over four ounces harvested after 70 day flower.

I grow a few plants in a suburban garden every year. I put the plants in tomato cages and wrap the cages with floating row cover. Surrounded by actual tomatoes in cages the non-tomatoes are very difficult to spot.

I'm going to be in Montreal in Feb and I would like to purchase some seeds in person. Can anyone recommend a store/seed bank in the Montreal area?

Every time I grow something for the first time I do a segmented harvest (my term) because there is no one sure way to tell how much maturity is required to get the desired effect. My BD is currently in 'fall colors' mode. Buds and sugar leaves are bluish, most pistils are orange and the older...

I have one HSO Blue Dream from Herbies currently at week 6 of flower. No trouble at all to grow. Mine is in a 4gal pot, in ProMix and fertilized weekly with EC 1.5 MSU pure water fertilizer. Lighting is a Lumigrow 650 pro about 18inches above the plant, all dials to max. BD is showing...

Lumigrow Lumigrow.com -- Lumigrow does not sell directly to consumers. I bought mine from MonsterGardens ~$1,400 us I'm in the eighth week of my first grow using a Lumigrow 650. I'll never go back to hps or anything else. The difference between my Lumigrow 650 and my previous 650w hps is...

Tripper, Excellent report! This is the kind of stuff I read Rollitup for. Keep it up.

I finally decided to get rid of my HID lighting and go with Lumigrow LED fixtures. I spent an hour trying to find the lowest price for a LumiGrow 650 pro and compiled the table below. aquaponics.com requires that a credit card number be entered before they display shipping cost so they are out...

Now I see, we are talking about two different things. I am talking about loading the genetic dice and you are talking about the nuts and bolts of breeding.

When you select plants to produce feminized seeds you are essentially creating two groups, those that will become hermaphrodites and those that won't. By necessity, you use only plants from the first group. If the tendency to hermaphrodism is genetically controlled, and there is no reason to...

And you probably never will. In order to produce feminized seed we inadvertently select for plants that can easily become hermaphrodites. This tendency is passed on in some form to all of the offspring of a feminized strain. So all feminized seeds probably contain the genes that will produce...

I guess I'm now a mind reader. A black and gold marbled retriever would be great. I'll buy one when you fix the strain. As you stated, many genetic problems in plants (and animals) are the result of inbreeding. You are probably familiar with breed specific dog problems. Off the top of my...

No need to apologize. I knew you were not trying to pick a fight. In my early days on the internet I used a confrontational, put-down style on message boards. The tone of my answers contained the hidden message that the original poster had no idea of what they were talking about and most of...

Kingrow1, I did not explain this well or completely, my apologies. Here is what I hope is a better and more detailed explanation. Let's start at the bottom line. The x and y chromosomes have nothing to do with hermaphrodites. It is natural to think that somehow a female that becomes a...

Bruce is a transexual, not a hermaphrodite. In humans a hermaphrodite is an individual with genitalia of both sexes. A common cause of human hermaphrodites is a female fetus that is exposed to higher than normal levels of testosterone during development. The testosterone causes the...

Thanks for the kind words. In answer to your question, yes. What you describe is often called 'line breeding or 'inbreeding' meaning parents are mated with children or siblings with siblings until some characteristic is fixed or inbreeding problems are encountered. Imagine that you are...

Giantee I feel like I should try to explain this point a bit better. It is really easy stuff and does not require a lot of study to understand the basics. Sex is determined by the presence or absence of a y chromosome. A plant with at least one y chromosome is phenotypically and...